West Jersey Detecting
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- Joined
- Oct 23, 2006
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- Location
- Philadelphia Area
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- Detector(s) used
- Nokta Legend, Excalibur 1000/II (hybrid) , Teknetics T2 SE
- Primary Interest:
- Other
Anyone who has detected with me knows that I work methodically, covering small areas until I know there's not a signal left. That being said, for over a year I've been detecting a property that has a home built around 1820 on it, hitting the site on weekend mornings through the spring, when it gets too overgrown and hot. The entire site is 20 acres of former farm land, and I've worked only about a quarter of it thoroughly.
Late last year I began digging pieces of bricks and square nails near a line of trees which extends approximately 40 yards long. I've focused almost exclusively on that 40 x 20 yard area and have now dug an abundance of buttons and more than a dozen coppers. The coins all range from the 1680s to the 1790's with the only US coin being a half cent.
The family that built the house around 1820 has owned the land since the early 1700's so I'm fairly convinced that I've stumbled across the earlier dwelling.
This week's harvest included some more tombacs and a couple of blowholes, along with the following
1 William III Halfpenny
1 Unidentified Farthing
1 Classic Head Half Cent
1 KG II Halfpennies
2 New Jersey Coppers
Unfortunately the coins are in sad shape, but I'm happy to add the New Jersey coppers to the list after 20 years of searching!
Late last year I began digging pieces of bricks and square nails near a line of trees which extends approximately 40 yards long. I've focused almost exclusively on that 40 x 20 yard area and have now dug an abundance of buttons and more than a dozen coppers. The coins all range from the 1680s to the 1790's with the only US coin being a half cent.
The family that built the house around 1820 has owned the land since the early 1700's so I'm fairly convinced that I've stumbled across the earlier dwelling.
This week's harvest included some more tombacs and a couple of blowholes, along with the following
1 William III Halfpenny
1 Unidentified Farthing
1 Classic Head Half Cent
1 KG II Halfpennies
2 New Jersey Coppers
Unfortunately the coins are in sad shape, but I'm happy to add the New Jersey coppers to the list after 20 years of searching!
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